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C&RL News September 2016 416

East Carolina State University and the  
 University of North Carolina-Greensboro 
have received a grant from the State Library of 
North Carolina to reduce the cost of required 
textbooks. Including matching funds from both 
universities, the total cost of the two-year Alter-
native Textbooks Project is $184,332. Sharing 
best practices, procedures, and promotional 
materials, librarians at both institutions will work 
with departmental faculty to reduce students’ 
textbook costs and increase their academic 
engagement through two concurrent strategies. 
One strategy is to award departmental faculty 
mini-grants to adopt, adapt, or create Open 
Educational Resources as the basis for their syl-
labi. The second strategy is to identify required 
texts that either the library already owns or can 
purchase as ebooks that students may use in 
addition to or instead of a printed copy that 
they purchase. 

The Luther Cressman Field Work Films, which 
document the influential anthropologist’s 
1938 to 1954 discovery and excavation of 
important Paleo-Indian sites in eastern Or-
egon, have been slated for preservation 
through an annual grant program by the 
National Film Preservation Foundation. The 
films are part of Cressman’s personal papers, 
which are housed in the Special Collections 
and University Archives of the University 
of Oregon (UO) Libraries, and Cressman’s 
field notes are held by the UO Museum of 
Natural and Cultural History (MNCH). Luther 
Cressman (1897-–1994) was a archaeologist 
whose work changed prevailing theories of 
ancient human civilization in North America. 
He helped to establish both the Department 
of Anthropology and the MNCH at the UO. 
The Field Work Films document Cressman’s 
work throughout Oregon: the first excava-
tions at key sites on the Columbia River, the 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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Northern Great Basin, the Oregon Coast, and 
the Klamath River. In the 1930s, at Fort Rock 
Cave and Paisley Caves, Cressman and his 
collaborators unearthed evidence that would 
significantly recalibrate the timescale for hu-
man habitation in our region. The 16mm 
original films are on acetate stock, in fair to 
poor condition. Laboratory work to preserve 
the films will include basic cleaning and res-
toration (including replasticizing when nec-
essary), creation of new internegatives, and 
printing two new public access copies of 
each film. Estimated costs to be covered by 
the grant are $17,146. 

A c q u i s i t i o n s

The archives of Barbara Morgan, the vi-
sionary photographer who passed away in 
1992, have come home to UCLA, where Mor-
gan studied art from 1919 to 1923 and sub-
sequently taught design, painting, and print-
making. She began her career as a painter 
but embraced photography at the prompting 
of her husband, Willard, a photographer, 
writer, educator, and curator. Another major 
influence was Edward Weston, whom she 
met at UCLA when she was installing an ex-
hibition of his work. The collection offers in-
sight into Morgan’s artistic development and 
the concept that inspired all of her works: the 
visual expression of movement and living en-
ergy. Its contents also trace the development 
of the Modernist movement in the United 
States through the Morgans’ friendships with 
other photographers, dancers, architects, art-
ists, and authors. The Barbara and Willard 
Morgan Photographs and Papers include sev-
eral thousand vintage negatives and prints of 
Barbara’s dance photography. It also encom-
passes the couple’s diaries, manuscripts, lec-
tures, essays, story books, original drawings, 
and prints, as well as extensive correspon-
dence and ephemera.